A Northern California man has pleaded guilty to vandalizing two churches and a synagogue in Modesto by spray-painting anti-Semitic and anti-Christian slurs.
Andrew Kerber pleaded guilty Monday in federal court in Fresno to conspiring to violate the civil rights of members of Congregation Beth Shalom.
The 22-year-old Chico man also admitted vandalizing Our Lady of Fatima Church and School and the Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation by spray-painting the walls in February 2006.